David Schwimmer Quotes
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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I'm emotionally and physically ready for anything.
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We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.
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I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
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I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
